Dr Sijung Hu is the Leader of Photonics Engineering Research Group, and Reader in Biomedical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. After being awarded a PhD at Loughborough University in 2000, Sijung was invited to join Kalibrant Ltd as a Senior Scientist for R&D in vitro diagnostics instrumentation. Sijung joined the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University as a research fellow in 2002 and sensor research fellow in 2006. Sijung has contributed in Photonics based Biomedical Engineering with creation of Opto-physiological monitoring and assessment that was recognized as a milestone in worldwide pulse oximetry research in 2008 by Drexel University, USA (http://www.pages.drexel.edu), and non-contact vital signs monitoring/imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG) was included in  NASA’s Future of Emergency Care (NASA/TM-2011-216145), and an innovative optoelectronic sensor (Carelight) was highlighted in Atlas of Science 2015 (atlasofscience.org/tag/carelight) with the potential for commercialization worldwide.

Sijung has successfully supervised 23 completed PhDs (2002–2019) with very satisfactory outcomes of original research reflecting in major leading journal publications (Google citations >6000). Five completed senior scholars’ supervision for four biomedical engineering projects; eight on-going PhDs supervision with the research topics covering the range of from in vivo physiological monitoring to in vitro diagnosis POC device manufacturing and dynamic breathy pressure sensing.